Package: sddm Version: 0.19.0-1 Followup-For: Bug #973933 Got a very big upgrade (hadn't started my Sid system for several days), which included sddm and after a reboot I got the sddm login screen. But after giving my credentials, I got thrown back to the login screen. 'systemctl status sddm.service' told me: Unable to open env file: /etc/environment: No such file or directory
● sddm.service - Simple Desktop Display Manager Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/sddm.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Mon 2020-11-09 23:14:48 CET; 8min ago Docs: man:sddm(1) man:sddm.conf(5) Main PID: 3641 (sddm) Tasks: 27 (limit: 77031) Memory: 35.6M CGroup: /system.slice/sddm.service ├─3641 /usr/bin/sddm └─3854 /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/sddm/{a330fe19-b614-4bb4-9329-d7d6240b8ca7} -background none -noreset -displayfd 18 -seat seat0 vt7 nov 09 23:15:58 bagend sddm[3641]: Socket server started. nov 09 23:15:58 bagend sddm[3641]: Loading theme configuration from "/usr/share/sddm/themes/debian-maui/theme.conf" nov 09 23:15:58 bagend sddm[3641]: Greeter starting... nov 09 23:15:58 bagend sddm-helper[3885]: [PAM] Starting... nov 09 23:15:58 bagend sddm-helper[3885]: [PAM] Authenticating... nov 09 23:15:58 bagend sddm-helper[3885]: [PAM] returning. nov 09 23:15:58 bagend sddm-helper[3885]: pam_unix(sddm-greeter:session): session opened for user sddm by (uid=0) nov 09 23:15:58 bagend sddm-helper[3885]: pam_env(sddm-greeter:session): Unable to open env file: /etc/environment: No such file or directory nov 09 23:15:58 bagend sddm[3641]: Greeter session started successfully nov 09 23:15:58 bagend sddm[3641]: Message received from greeter: Connect I indeed do not have that file (I do have /etc/environment.d/90qt-a11y.conf), but that shouldn't make sddm crash. Downgrading sddm and sddm-theme-debian-maui to the testing version (0.18.1-1) made me able to login again. After sending this bug report, I'll try to see whether a 'touch /etc/environment' would fix the problem as well. Anyway, it shouldn't have crashed on it imo. Notable difference with OP is that I use KDE as my DE. Cheers, Diederik -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages sddm depends on: ii adduser 3.118 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.74 ii libc6 2.31-4 ii libgcc-s1 10.2.0-16 ii libpam0g 1.3.1-5 ii libqt5core5a 5.15.1+dfsg-2 ii libqt5dbus5 5.15.1+dfsg-2 ii libqt5gui5 5.15.1+dfsg-2 ii libqt5network5 5.15.1+dfsg-2 ii libqt5qml5 5.15.1+dfsg-3 ii libqt5quick5 5.15.1+dfsg-3 ii libstdc++6 10.2.0-16 ii libsystemd0 246.6-2 ii libxcb-xkb1 1.14-2 ii libxcb1 1.14-2 ii qml-module-qtquick2 5.15.1+dfsg-3 ii x11-common 1:7.7+21 ii xauth 1:1.0.10-1 ii xserver-xorg [xserver] 1:7.7+21 Versions of packages sddm recommends: pn haveged <none> ii libpam-systemd 246.6-2 ii sddm-theme-debian-maui [sddm-theme] 0.19.0-1 Versions of packages sddm suggests: ii libpam-kwallet5 5.19.5-3 pn qtvirtualkeyboard-plugin <none> -- debconf information: sddm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/sddm * shared/default-x-display-manager: sddm